phpBay to support Amazon
As many of you have heard (or perhaps found out the hard way) eBay has been shutting down the accounts of many publishers. Not just shady people either. It’s one of the most ridiculous thing’s i have ever seen. I have not been shut down, but since they are not giving much info as to WHY they are shutting people down, i have no idea if and when it will happen.
Here is a great thread on EPN. My eBay name is scuttleSRVbuttin. I have a few comments on there.
Many people have been screwed. If you’re one of them, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. I just talked to Wade(the phpBay developer) the other day and suggested that he start working on Amazon integration for phpBay. He told me he had actually started it the night before.
I don’t think the Amazon affiliate program is nearly as good as eBay, but there are people who do well with it. This is a great opportunity for people who already have sites with traffic. If you already use phpBay, then your set. But if you have BANS or a custom thing, you may want to switch to phpBay or get the API.
Anyone here been banned by eBay yet? Have you tried switching to pepperjam? did it work?
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August 24th, 2008 at 2:34 am
I haven’t been banned yet. I was wondering about pepperjam as well.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I’m not sure why everyone is heading to Pepperjam - yes, they have eBay, but you have to be *approved* by eBay to get in. Duhhhhh!
Why would you not be subject to the same problems as those signing up directly with EPN/eBay??? Oh, yeah - I guess you would!
To me, this has been coming ever since Meg left eBay.
1) The new guy likes the fixed price model - he was bound to try to switch to it… classic new management mistake! (Think “New Coke” - and “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”)
2) Why dump CJ in favor of their own affil program?? To keep more money in-house, what else?? ]
3) The initial problems with accurate reporting - especially now that eBay controls that aspect of paying affils as well. Why?? Keep more money in-house.
4) Dropping affiliates who don’t measure up to some obscure formula. Someone on the epn forum hit the nail on the head when he said that he(she??) thought it was because the sent traffic was traffic eBay *thought* they would get anyway - get rid of the affiliates. Keep more money in-house. (Getting to be a repetitive refrain, isn’t it??) But this makes no sense - if they thought they’d get this traffic anyway, where the hell was it?? It sure wasn’t on eBay looking for the product!
So, here’s eBay’s thinking. Our revenues are down. We need more money. So, let’s charge the sellers more to list their items. Then we’ll make them use PayPal, oh, and let’s also get rid of all our salespeople. We don’t need them - - their customers would come here, anyway - and we’ll save the commissions!
Someone said that they thought eBay would be dead in 2009. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least - they certainly seem to have a death wish!
August 25th, 2008 at 11:59 am
It may be an action simply to get rid of cookie stuffers.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Glad to hear this is coming. I saw Wade mentioned it on the phpBay forums but there was no completion date. I haven’t been banned yet but have held off on pumping out some new sites due to the recent bans.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
After a few rocky months with the new EPN, my sites have come out of the woodwork and are making some decent money now. However, I still don’t trust the EPN tracking system. I would actually prefer a connection to Amazon with phpBay. I totally love the script over BANS!!
Way to go on your increased earnings!
Sal
October 8th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
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